Network Infrastructure Engineer

National Westminster Bank
London, UK
29 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Border Gateway Protocol Virtual Private Networks (VPN) Network Architecture Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) Overlay Transport Virtualization Computer Networking Systems Cisco

Job description

  • You’ll collaborate in building the best enterprise network solutions and engineer infrastructure technology to comply with security, resilience, sustainability, and operational requirements with observability and guardrails built in
  • You’ll also use automation to provide testing and a route to live for the product, identifying ways to use new and existing technology tools to enhance performance and remove inefficiencies
  • This is a chance to work with colleagues across the bank to share engineering best practices, allowing you to provide thought leadership while developing solutions

What you’ll do

As a Network Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll contribute to and manage the selection, creation and maintenance of technologies required to meet the needs of our customers, strategic targets and architecture outcomes, along with developing products using modern engineering practices and tools.

We’ll look to you to collaborate with Product Owners to develop product roadmaps and manage the lifecycle of the team’s products and support engineered products to respond to customer feedback, new feature requests, resolve production issues and help customers consume our products.

You’ll also:

  • Work within a team to design and engineer intuitive, self-service infrastructure products
  • Lead and drive standards for our Cisco and Arista network
  • Develop technical skills through continuous learning and development
  • Contribute to the delivery of infrastructure as code solutions
  • Build an awareness of design thinking tools and techniques with users in order to improve your product
  • Provide operational support for pattern or product related issues
  • Work with key vendors in the delivery of the infrastructure services and technology for the product

Requirements

We’re looking for someone with hands-on experience managing large enterprise network environments with 10,000+ devices. We’ll expect you to have proven design, implementation, and management of enterprise-grade networks using Cisco and Arista platforms with experience including, Arista Fabric with VxLAN on-prem deployment, traditional Cisco enterprise deployment and extensive knowledge of layer 2 and 3 protocols to build scalable and resilient networks such as STP, OSPF, BGP, VxLAN, EVPN.

You’ll also need experience with Cisco Meraki networking solutions, including Dashboard management, MX deployment and administration, site-to-site VPNs, security policies, MS switching, and MR wireless design and troubleshooting.

In addition, you’ll have:

  • Experience working in financial services environment on trader voice infrastructure
  • The ability to work in high pressure environments, specifically responding to and leading on business impacting incidents
  • Strong experience with multicast technologies and their interoperation across Cisco and Arista VxLAN platforms
  • Experience working in an agile manner on both operations and projects along with the ability to work on your own and drive your own workstack as part of a larger team
  • Strong collaborative communication skills for articulating technical concepts clearly to business and technical stakeholders
  • Large scale WAN with traffic engineering policies

Benefits & conditions

Pulled from the full job description

  • Annual leave
  • Company pension, Here’s a quick look at what your pay package and annual leave could look like if you get accepted for the role. We have a wide range of benefits to support you in your working life and beyond.

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Your pay package

100% Base pay This is your base pay package that you take home every month.

+10% Pension funding This is monthly funding paid towards your pension.

up to +10% Benefit funding This is monthly funding paid towards a range of benefits you can choose from.

Your leave allowance

30 days Annual leave You’ll also have the opportunity to purchase up to 5 additional days off.

3 days Volunteering Take time off to support the causes you’re passionate about.

3 days Training Take time to build the skills you need to grow your career.

About the company

Bishopsgate recently underwent a multi-year refurbishment programme to improve spaces and facilities as well as become more sustainable.

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